Variety Quotes - Page 38

• I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

  Mark McGrath

  Real, Thinking, Rays

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• One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Thinking, Media, Average

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• Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Attitude, Self, Expression

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.26, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, Our Generation

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• The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

  Philippe Perrin

  Jobs, Character, Careers

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• I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

  Thomas Perry

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Yankees

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• I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

  Nora Roberts

  Genre

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• Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Wells, Splitting, Divergence

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• Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, Animal, Plant

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• We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.

  James Van Praagh

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The expression of divinity is in variety.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Expression, Divinity

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

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• Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

  Mary Wesley

  People, Persons, Conception

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• Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

  Charles C. Mann

  Two, Maps

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• Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.

  Andie MacDowell

  Appreciation, Needs, Six

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• When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

  Samuel West

  People, Different, Wells

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• Variety is not everything! Viagra is!

  Tiger Woods

  Viagra

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• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

  Veronica Roth

  Book, Reading, People

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• Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Hate, Thinking, Sight

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• When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Sorry, Thinking, Important

  "Didn't he do well?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2004.

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• It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Issues, Imagination

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press

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• Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.

  William D. Cohan

  Wall, Bankers, Four

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• There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.

  PSY

  Artist, Korea, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

  Paul Keating

  Men, Three, Politician

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• Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

  Richard Rosen

  Understanding, Frozen, Jargon

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